March 23rd, 1217

Born on March 23rd, 1217

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 294,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 197 days, exactly on November 27th, 2024, people who were born on March 23rd, 1217 will be 295,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on March 23rd?

March 23rd, 2007

The Iranian military arrested 15 Royal Navy personnel, claiming that they had entered Iran's territorial waters.

March 23rd, 1996

Lee Teng-hui (pictured) was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.

March 23rd, 1994

Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son had unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.

March 23rd, 1993

The demolition of Kowloon Walled City (pictured), a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.

March 23rd, 1989

Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim which was later discredited.

March 23rd, 1977

British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, starting with the Watergate scandal.

March 23rd, 1933

The Nazi Party took the first step in the Gleichschaltung process by having the Enabling Act passed, giving the government the right to make laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.

March 23rd, 1931

Bhagat Singh (pictured), one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities.

March 23rd, 1919

Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.

March 23rd, 1908

American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was fatally shot in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants unhappy with his support of increased Japanese presence in Korea.

March 23rd, 1905

About 1,500 Cretans, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, met at the village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the Theriso revolt.

March 23rd, 1889

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India.

March 23rd, 1888

Chaired by William McGregor, a meeting of ten English football clubs was held in London, which would eventually result in the establishment of the Football League.

March 23rd, 1862

American Civil War: General Stonewall Jackson of the Confederate States Army lost the First Battle of Kernstown, but was still able to prevent the Union Army from reinforcing the Peninsula campaign.

March 23rd, 1839

An earthquake struck central Burma, causing significant damage and killing an estimated 300 to 400 people.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 23rd

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 23rd?

86

Paul Valentine

American actor (1919-2006)

*March 23rd, 1919, New York City †January 27th, 2006, Los Angeles

67

Cedric Gibbons

American art director (1890–1960)

*March 23rd, 1893, Dublin †July 26th, 1960, Hollywood

58

Marin Hinkle

American actress

*March 23rd, 1966, Dar es Salaam

73

Joan Crawford

American actress (1904–1977)

*March 23rd, 1904, San Antonio †May 10th, 1977, New York City

30

JP Saxe

Canadian musician and singer

*March 23rd, 1994, Toronto

54

Gianni Infantino Riovaldi

Swiss-Italian football administrator

*March 23rd, 1970, Brig-Glis

21

Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson

Icelandic association football player

*March 23rd, 2003, Sutton Coldfield

41

Mo Farah

British track and field athlete

*March 23rd, 1983, Gabiley

62

Steve Redgrave

British rower

*March 23rd, 1962, Marlow

77

Pierre-Simon Laplace

French mathematician and astronomer (1749-1827)

*March 23rd, 1749, Beaumont-en-Auge †March 5th, 1827, Paris

67

Amanda Plummer

American actress

*March 23rd, 1957, New York City

60

Hope Davis

American actress

*March 23rd, 1964, Englewood

46

Perez Hilton

American actor and blogger

*March 23rd, 1978, Miami

88

Roger Bannister

English physician and athlete

*March 23rd, 1929, London Borough of Harrow †March 3rd, 2018, Oxford

77

Roger Martin du Gard

French writer

*March 23rd, 1881, Neuilly-sur-Seine †August 22nd, 1958, Château du Tertre

65

Wernher von Braun

German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)

*March 23rd, 1912, Wyrzysk †June 16th, 1977, Alexandria

70

Erik De Vlaeminck

Belgian cyclist

*March 23rd, 1945, Eeklo †December 4th, 2015, Wilskerke

87

Hans Thirring

Austrian physicist (1888-1976)

*March 23rd, 1888, Vienna †March 22nd, 1976, Vienna

38

Ben Rappaport

American actor

*March 23rd, 1986, New York City

52

Margaret of Anjou

15th-century English royal consort (1430-1482)

*March 23rd, 1430, Pont-à-Mousson †August 25th, 1482, Souzay-Champigny

82

Michael Haneke

Austrian film director and screenwriter

*March 23rd, 1942, Munich

84

Hermann Staudinger

German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

*March 23rd, 1881, Worms †September 8th, 1965, Freiburg im Breisgau

65

Catherine Keener

American actress

*March 23rd, 1959, Miami

75

Trevor Jones

South African film score composer

*March 23rd, 1949, Cape Town

74

Corinne Cléry

French actress

*March 23rd, 1950, Paris

68

José Manuel Durão Barroso

Portuguese politician and teacher (born 1956)

*March 23rd, 1956, Lisbon

88

Akira Kurosawa

Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)

*March 23rd, 1910, Shinagawa-ku †September 6th, 1998, Setagaya-ku

82

Don Coates

American jazz musician

*March 23rd, 1935, Orange †May 16th, 2017, Naples

48

Michelle Monaghan

American actress

*March 23rd, 1976, Winthrop

37

Kangana Ranaut

Indian actress (born 1987)

*March 23rd, 1987, Mandi district

32

Kyrie Irving

American basketball player

*March 23rd, 1992, Melbourne

85

Daniel Bovet

Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (1907–1992)

*March 23rd, 1907, Fleurier †April 8th, 1992, Rome

82

Ludwig Quidde

German politician (1858-1941)

*March 23rd, 1858, Bremen †March 4th, 1941, Geneva

70

Ric Ocasek

American musician

*March 23rd, 1949, Baltimore †September 15th, 2019, Manhattan

56

Damon Albarn

British musician

*March 23rd, 1968, London

51

Jerzy Dudek

Polish association football player

*March 23rd, 1973, Rybnik

58

Josef Čapek

Czech painter and writer (1887-1945)

*March 23rd, 1887, Hronov †April 1st, 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

71

Chaka Khan

American singer (born. 1953)

*March 23rd, 1953, Chicago

56

Fernando Hierro

Spanish football player and manager

*March 23rd, 1968, Vélez-Málaga

79

Erich Fromm

German sociologist and psychoanalyst

*March 23rd, 1900, Frankfurt †March 18th, 1980, Muralto

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Public holidays on March 23rd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on March 23rd.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1217 is a normal year and no leap year.

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